Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers - Less Wrong
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Hmm. If your intention is to stress that, in many cases, organisms behave as if they were fitness maximisers, then yes, I see your point. But it's important to bear in mind that there are other cases where they don't behave "correctly" - because they're executing sub-optimal adaptations.